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Odd elasticity encompasses active elastic systems whose stress-strain relationship is not compatible with a potential energy. As the requirement of energy conservation is lifted from linear elasticity, new anti-symmetric (odd) components…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-15 Michele Fossati , Colin Scheibner , Michel Fruchart , Vincenzo Vitelli

We develop a semi-classical approximation for the scar function in the Weyl-Wigner representation in the neighborhood of a classically unstable periodic orbit of chaotic two dimensional systems. The prediction of hyperbolic fringes,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alejandro M. F. Rivas

A basis set expansion is employed to calculate spectra and eigenstates of charge carriers within a toroidal volume characterized by major radius $R$ and minor radius $a$ immersed in an azimuthally symmetric magnetic field. The angular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-23 Mario Encinosa , Johnny Williamson

We specify the semiclassical no-boundary wave function of the universe without relying on a functional integral of any kind. The wave function is given as a sum of specific saddle points of the dynamical theory that satisfy conditions of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-27 Jonathan J. Halliwell , James B. Hartle , Thomas Hertog

This paper is devoted to the investigation of harmonic and biharmonic functions on vector bundles equipped with spherically symmetric metrics. We will study the biharmonicity of vertical lifts of functions as well as $r$-radial functions on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Mohamed Tahar Kadaoui Abbassi , Souhail Doua , Ibrahim Lakrini

We derive the explicit expressions of the canonical and helicity wave functions for massive particles with arbitrary spins. Properties of these wave functions are discussed.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Jie-Jie Zhu

The purpose of this Note is to provide a deterministic implementation of the random wave model for the number of nodal domains in the context of the two-dimensional torus. The approach is based on recent work due to Nazarov and Sodin and…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2013-03-13 Jean Bourgain

The nonlinear interaction of waves in a driven medium may lead to wave turbulence, a state such that energy is transferred from large to small lengthscales. Here, wave turbulence is observed in experiments on a vibrating plate. The…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2008-10-07 Arezki Boudaoud , Olivier Cadot , Benoît Odille , Cyril Touzé

We construct new explicit proper biharmonic functions on the $3$-dimensional Thurston geometries $\Sol$, $\Nil$, $\SL2$, $H^2\times\rn$ and $S^2\times\rn$.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-04 Sigmundur Gudmundsson

We report the observation of capillary wave turbulence on the surface of a fluid layer in a low-gravity environment. In such conditions, the fluid covers all the internal surface of the spherical container which is submitted to random…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-05-06 Claudio Falcon , Eric Falcon , Umberto Bortolozzo , Stéphan Fauve

Topological states in quantum materials are defined by non-trivial topological invariants, such as the Chern number, which are properties of their bulk wave functions. A remarkable consequence of topological wave functions is the emergence…

The angular wave functions for a hydrogen atom are well known to be spherical harmonics, and are obtained as the solutions of a partial differential equation. However, the differential operator is given by the Casimir operator of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-09 Naohisa Ogawa

We investigate the possibility of using a transcorrelated Hamiltonian to describe electron correlation. Amethod to obtain transcorrelatedwavefunctionswas developed based on the mathematical framework of the bi-variational principle. This…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-07-23 Nicholas Lee , Alex J. W. Thom

We consider a partially hinged rectangular plate and its normal modes. There are two families of modes, longitudinal and torsional. We study the variation of the corresponding eigenvalues under domain deformations. We investigate the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-13 Elvise Berchio , Davide Buoso , Filippo Gazzola

The turbulence of capillary waves on the surface of a ferrofluid with a high permeability in a horizontal magnetic field is considered in the framework of a one-dimensional weakly nonlinear model. In the limit of a strong magnetic field,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-21 Evgeny A. Kochurin

It is generally argued that if the wave-function in the de Broglie--Bohm theory is a physical field, it must be a field in configuration space. Nevertheless, it is possible to interpret the wave-function as a multi-field in…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2018-01-22 Mario Hubert , Davide Romano

In the study of holomorphic functions of one complex variable, one well-known theory is that of elliptic functions and it is possible to take the zeta-function of Weierstrass as a building stone of this vast theory. We are working the…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Guy Laville , Ivan Ramadanoff

The reconstruction of water wave elevation from bottom pressure measurements is an important issue for coastal applications, but corresponds to a difficult mathematical problem. In this paper we present the derivation of a method which…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-22 Philippe Bonneton , David Lannes

The perturbation method in supersymmetric quantum mechanics (SUSYQM) is used to study the spheroidal wave functions' recurrence relations, which are revealed by the shape-invariance property of the super-potential. The super-potential is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-11 Guihui Tian , Shuquan Zhong

We survey some topics involving the Whitham equations, concentrating on the role of the product of the wave function and its adjoint in averaging and in producing Cauchy kernels and differentials on Riemann surfaces. There are also some new…

solv-int · Physics 2008-02-03 Robert Carroll